NACER
Northern Art, Community and Environment Research (NACER) is a research group in the Faculty of Art and Design in the University of Lapland. NACER conducts research in the academic discipline of art education, including research on visual art education in schools, educational institutions and universities as well as in the broad field of visual art, including traditional Indigenous and other-than-Indigenous arts and contemporary collaborative art forms. NACER emphasises cultural and social cooperation and sustainable tourism, reflecting the profile of the University of Lapland.
NACER fosters global responsibility and sustainability through research-based activities in the Northern and Arctic context. Its participatory research reflects the changing sociocultural circumstances of an age of ecological crises and urbanisation and investigates future directions for sensitive, socially effective initiatives that use visual arts, art pedagogy and arts-based methods to benefit local communities and address global concerns.
NACER fosters global responsibility and sustainability through research-based activities in the Northern and Arctic context. Its participatory research reflects the changing sociocultural circumstances of an age of ecological crises and urbanisation and investigates future directions for sensitive, socially effective initiatives that use visual arts, art pedagogy and arts-based methods to benefit local communities and address global concerns.
NACER collaborates with the Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design network
